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A legitimate explanation for the Deferential Wife's confusion about her worth is her socialization in a patriarchal society which sends her many messages of inferiority.
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- noun The quality that renders something desirable, useful, or valuable: the worth of higher education.
- noun Material or market value: stocks having a worth of ten million dollars.
- noun A quantity of something that may be purchased for a specified sum or by a specified means: ten dollars' worth of natural gas; wanted their money's worth.
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- To them, a lavish presen - tation of their worth was as valuable as their own blood. — The Gospel according to the Son
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A legitimate explanation for the Deferential Wife's confusion about her worth is her socialization in a patriarchal society which sends her many messages of inferiority.
— Feminist Moral Psychology - Increasing this worth is the task of a soldierly education. — Panzer Aces
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Hopefully she will have someone she trusts show her that she can be herself and that her worth is not measured by $$$ and her life is not define by her "FANS."
— Tween Angel, Part 2: More Behind-the-Scenes Photos of Miley Cyrus: Vanity Fair -
They have to publicly put out there what their worth is and what their assets are.
— CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009
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- Middle English, from Old English weorth; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.
- Middle English worthen, from Old English weorthan; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.
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/ (wûrth)/
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